This set of 21 BRAND-NEW, actionable challenges—all built around Stoicism’s most timeless wisdom—is designed to help you take back control over your life and make 2025 your best year yet.
We've put more work and testing into this challenge than anything we've ever done. It's a completely new challenge, crafted to meet the unique demands the new year will bring.
Anxiety, worry, doubt, imposter syndrome? These things are no good to you. You must push them aside. You must put these impressions up to the test, master them so they don’t master you…so you can do what you need to do.
In a recent video on theDaily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday shares Stoic advice on making 2025 the best year of your life, starting by putting your emotions behind you and taking action:
“Most New Year’s resolutions don’t even make it through the first month. Motivation fades, distraction sets in, and by spring, all of our bold plans are buried underneath the weight of daily life. For thousands of years, human beings have struggled with this cycle. The question, Epictetus said, is “how much longer are you going to wait to demand the best from yourself?” Why are you going to wait until the year after this year? How many years are you going to waste?”
In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author Richard Reeves on Stoicism’s interplay with masculinity, the intricacies of empowerment, and recognizing different manifestations of mental health:
“Young men and boys tend to externalize, they act out, whereas women tend to be more internalizing, so it’s more about feelings of sadness. But if you take the main measures of mental health, they only ask internalizing questions. There’s a lot of attention right now to the share of young women that are feeling persistent sadness, but they don’t ask ‘Did you punch a wall?’ There’s a tendency sometimes to see that as antisocial behavior, but they’re symptoms of the same problem.”
